Jennifer Anna Dorsey

Personal

Birthday: 
1971
Birthplace: 
Las Vegas, NV
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Prior Employment: 

Private practice, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1997-2013

Nominated to U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, September 19, 2012; no Senate vote

Education

Name of School: 
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Degree: 
B.A.
Degree Year: 
1994
Name of School - Second: 

Pepperdine University School of Law

The mission of Pepperdine University School of Law is to provide highly qualified students with a superior legal education. The school seeks to prepare students for positions as counselors, advocates, and judges; as business persons; and as researchers, teachers, and philosophers of the law. These ends are furthered by a program of academic excellence combined with practical experience. The school's Christian emphasis leads to a special concern for imbuing students with the highest principles of professional, ethical, and moral responsibility. An effort is made to call together a faculty, staff, and student body who wish to share this experience of quality legal education in a value-centered context. It is the philosophy of the School of Law that lawyers best serve the interests of their clients, as well as the interests of society, when they possess a genuine commitment to high standards of personal conduct and professional responsibility. Therefore, the school tries to convey to its students not only the knowledge of how to employ the law, but also an awareness of the responsibilities to society that accompany the power inherent in that knowledge.

Degree - Second: 
J.D.
Degree Year - Second: 
1997

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, District of Nevada
Court Name: 

Nevada District Court

President Nominating: 
Barack Obama
Party Affiliation of President: 
Democratic
Commission Date: 
7/9/2013